I never cried during or because of an F1 race. Although emotions were running very high quite a few times but I was jumping around rather than crying. I still remember having goosebumps seeing Ferrari fans flooding the main straight at Monza 2010.

The first time I cried was probably when Marcos Ambrose won at Watkins Glen in NASCAR in 2011. So many years of hard work into a perfect race for him.

When McLaren announced they would reunite with Honda it made me jump in the room like mad, also like when Fox Sports got the F1 here in Australia because I was long annoyed with the standard of F1…[Read more]

McLaren has revealed a ‘Prost’ edition of the P1 which features his helmet colours incorporated into the livery:

This weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed will see a collection of McLaren models, displayed statically at McLaren House, adjacent to the famous Goodwood House, and in the Supercar Paddock prepared by McLaren Special Operations (MSO).…

The race that springs to mind for me was the 2011 Indy 500. Dan Wheldon was (and still is) my absolute hero and I’d boycotted watching the first few races out of contempt for the fact that Panther had replaced him with JR Hildebrand. I was following this race intently, with the live timing on the computer to keep track of Dan’s progress. I watched…[Read more]

There are a few races that have brought me to tears:
– 1995 Canadian GP. Never saw this live (didn’t follow F1 back then), but watching it some ten years later was still a very emotional event.
– 2000 Japanese GP. The disappointment of Mika losing the championship was so bitter.
– 2010 Abu Dhabi GP. Listening to Seb’s team radio has to make you…[Read more]

I’ve learned 2 things from this thread, F1 isn’t all roses and in some small way we grow up loving a sport that at some point involves tradgedy. Secondly, I have learnt that @keithcollantine is younger than me :P

@ben-n that footage of the old stadium section filled to the brim with F1 fans, and the old empty forest of the Hockenheimring is…[Read more]